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Article: Arthur Klug, 79, bartender at Figaro's, Old Town Ale House
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 2, 2005
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Arthur Klug, the much-loved and well-read bartender at two
legendary Chicago watering holes, died of a heart attack on Saturday.
He was 79.
Mr. Klug presided behind the bar at Figaro's on Rush Street in the
1950s, where comic Lenny Bruce became a friend. In the early 1970s,
he moved to the Old Town Ale House, where he spent as much time
talking with his customers as serving them. He enjoyed a good
argument but rarely disagreed that he looked uncannily like Paul
Newman.
It was Mr. Klug and his former wife, Beatrice, the owner of the
Ale House, who sponsored artist Maureen Munsun in her epic group